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2 unusual facts about Mariano Arista


Édouard Pingret

He produced outstanding portraits, including those of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1808) in France and General Mariano Arista (1851; Mexico City, Mus. N. Hist.).

Guillermo Prieto

He was minister of finance (hacienda) under Presidents Mariano Arista, Juan Álvarez and Benito Juárez.



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Horace Alsbury

In 1840 Alsbury served as commander of the Federalist leader Antonio Canales Rosillo's bodyguard along the Rio Grande during the many running battles between Mexican general Mariano Arista's and Canales, during Canales’ and Samuel W. Jordan’s attempt to establish the Republic of the Rio Grande.